Dňa Wednesday 31 October 2007 11:22:38 Istvan Gabor ste napísal:
Hello:
This might be a little bit offtopic. I do not want to offend anybody at openSUSE and don't want to be rude but I think openSUSE could not make a decent package manager since 9.3 or 10.0. Even in 10.3.
I'd like to point out that slowness of the package manager was one of the top complaints about pre-zypp era ;-)
These are the reasons why I don't use YAST package manager: - YAST package manager is extremely slow. - Furthermore why does it have to refresh all repositories if you want only remove or check something?
Remove - see the discussion in the archive. Basically, removing something might mean installing something else. Check - this is way to unspecific. I agree that 'zypper info' might be optimized a bit.
- You still can't change the order how repositories are processed (discussed elsewhere). - I am lost in the several options: online update, automatic online update, software repositories, community repositories, add on product etc. Who can follow this? And all of them after starting always refreshes and refreshes...
Everything related to packagemanagement in YaST always initializes libzypp and its repos. You have a point about mess in the software management section of the YaST control center.
- In the software manager takes forever to switch from one package group to the other. - In 10.2 the software manager always downloaded all the different package descriptor language files (xmls?) further slowing down refreshing. (I did not checked if it had changed in 10.3)
For this reason I use smart package manager. It's search function not as good as yast's but: - much easier to switch on and off repositories
What's wrong with 'zypper mr' ?
- one can choose by hand which repositories and when to refresh
Just turn off autorefresh for all your repos and call zypper refresh manually. Stano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org